LETTER: Elitists fear society armed with knowledge

Bob Schieffer of CBS News made the ridiculous argument that passing and implementing gun control legislation was the equivalent of Lyndon Johnson pushing through the 1964 Civil Rights Act in the face of intense opposition. He compares the NRA to the Nazis.

First of all, he is using a very flawed argument. Johnson was fighting for the inalienable rights of black people who had been denied their rights from the foundation of this country and the passage of the 14th Amendment, which was supposed to have granted those rights. Gun-control legislation infringes on the inalienable right of all Americans to defend themselves and to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.

The Second Amendment is also designed to protect the First Amendment. I would remind Mr. Schieffer that the first gun-control laws were directed at black people after the Civil War. When he attacks the NRA, that is simply a cover for attacking the American people. I am a staunch advocate of the Second Amendment and I have never belonged to the NRA, and I feel safe in saying that most gun owners probably do not belong to the NRA. As for the Nazis, they did not defend the rights of gun owners like the NRA; they disarmed people, which made it possible to murder millions of innocent children and adults, which makes our gun deaths seem insignificant by comparison. Yes, an armed society is a dangerous society. Not for the people but for the elites who work to suppress our freedoms. Yet the thing they fear the most is a society armed with knowledge.

Greg Segroves

Diane Street

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LETTER: Elitists fear society armed with knowledge

Bob Schieffer of CBS News made the ridiculous argument that passing and implementing gun control legislation was the equivalent of Lyndon Johnson pushing through the 1964 Civil Rights Act in the face

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